That Silver Light of Extreme Super Moon....

Extreme Supermoon behind tall buildings

The calm silver light of moon in dark night fascinates me to hold the entire universe in my eyes. Extreme Super Moon day was very very special for me because moon was much brighter and bigger than normal full moon day. I waited for the evening to come down excitingly like married woman waits for Moon to come up on Karva Chauth day in India.

As the Moon rose behind tall buildings of Connaught Place struggling with thin layer of clouds looked as if a kid is shying away from guests at home and playing hide and seek at his own. For a while moon came out of the layer of clouds and its brightness started spreading slowly on the city. Then the moon started hide and seek by taking shelter of clouds here and there for long. Small disappointment but I was hoping that moon will come up very bright and beautiful in sometime.

An hours travel in Delhi Metro Train and I landed at Gurgaon around 9:00 PM, After coming out from Station, the first thing I looked up was the moon, and I was stun to see its brightness and it looked so close.

To enjoy that Silver light I chose a play ground where there was no light. I stood there for sometime and felt like heaven. The moon exactly on top of me, looked so close that I could see the lines drawn on it.

Extreme Super Moon - 19th March 2011

Moon reminded me of those Astrologer and Scientists who claimed that Extreme Super Moon will cause lot of damage to planet earth. I looked at him and said "You are such a beautiful planet that I can not even imagine in my dreams that you can cause any damage to anyone. For me you are the symbol of beauty, calmness, life and forgiveness." I realized that he nodded and said, "I am here to spread Love through the silver light which in no way can hurt anyone on your planet"

I make a point to watch moon, especially on full moon day and I had never loved moon so much as I loved him on Extreme Super moon day.

I missed my hometown Chamba (Himachal) at that time and imagined how Extreme Super moon would look when it would rise behind Himalayas covered with Snow in front of our house. I could imagine how big and bright it was looking there, and its Silver light must be creating shine on Snow away from City lights like Delhi. There we never use lights once Moon spreads its love through Silver Light.

Few days later Astrologers and Scientists would start linking Japan tragedy with Extreme Super moon as nothing happened on Extreme Super moon day. But for me My Chanda Maama would remain as symbol of Love and Life forever.

Extreme Super Moon Day - 19th March 2011

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When I first learnt about Extreme super moon day coming on 19th March 2011, it just clicked in my mind how beautiful it would look when it would be closest to the earth. As per records it will be closest in last 18 years. I straight away decided to capture those delicate images on 19th evening.

However the joy did not last long when I switched on TV and realized that it will bring lot of adverse effect on earth. Its strong gravitational pull can create high tides on the coasts, Earthquakes, hurricanes and extreme weather conditions. The first thing came into my mind was Japan. Poor guys have still not recovered from tragedy of Earthquake followed by Tsunami and are undergoing nuclear threat or disasters, above all if in case Extreme Super moon creates any havoc how will they live with it?

Then a kid inside me woke up and said, "How your favorite Chanda Maama can do any disaster? You have grown up watching him everyday admiring his beauty especially on Blue moon. When you click his images you always complain him that he is too far from you . When he is coming closure to you now, you are scared of him. He is not going to do any harm to anyone on this universe. So spend as much time as possible when he is nearer to you." 

Believe me, after this my whole perspective towards this special day changed and started imagining how will this evening be? People (Astrologers and Scientist) who are talking negative about Extreme Super Moon looked fool to me.

I may not be the expert of astrology and science but a kid inside me is excited to witness this special occurance and capture this as a special moment for lifetime when my Chanda Maama was closest to me.

Blue Moon on White Snow

19th Jan 2011, Full Blue Moon Day and I was at my native place Chamba Himachal.We had a small function at home wherein around 200 people had turned up.

We were wrapping the function by around 5:45 PM and darkness has started spreading around. I was tired with long hectic day that too without food (fasting).

Smoothly the moon light eliminated the darkness which was present for a while. I looked at the moon and I was stun to see the beauty of blue moon.

Almost five times bigger than previous day I had seen the moon. The moon rose straight in front of the house behind mountains fully covered with snow. As it rose, it was partially hiding behind thin clouds wherein one could see the silver color light passing through clouds.

For a while view became the most beautiful when Sun rays added orange color into the clouds and the reflection on snow looked just awesome.

As the moon came up and Sun rays disappeared, the entire landscape which was covered with feets of snow looked like a Silver mine and it was not less than a heaven.

Calmness after noisy and hectic day made these occasional moments soothing to me.

I watched the moon for long and realized that I had never noticed the beauty of Blue moon, Its a City Life effect wherein we tend to ignore such great things.